Friday , 29 March 2024

Human rights

Iran: No End to Mounting Repression

(HRW) – Iranian intelligence and judicial authorities continued their crackdown on dissent in 2021, while lawmakers passed and debated laws that further violate human rights, Human Rights Watch said in its World Report 2022. Over the past three years, security forces have responded to widespread protests stemming largely from economic rights issues with excessive and unlawful force, including lethal force, and arrested thousands …

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Political prisoner goes on hunger strike after unlawful banishment

Iran-HRM – Political prisoner Ebrahim Sediq Hamedani was transferred to solitary confinement in Marivan Prison while on a hunger strike. Mr. Khalil Sedighi Hamedani, 63, and his son Salar, 30, were abroptly transferred on January 7, from Urmia Prison to Marivan and Kamyaran Prisons where they have been incarcerated alongside common criminals. Both have gone on hunger strike since their …

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Deaths in Iran prisons ongoing amid lack of accountability

Iran-HRM – The torture and cruel mistreatment of detainees and prisoners in Iran are among the most serious human rights violations in the country’s jails. Iranian security officials routinely subject prisoners to ill-treatment particularly during interrogations. There are noumerous reports of detainees’ deaths during interrogation phase in detention centres run by the ministry of intelligence, the IRGC, and the investigation …

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Brothers Farhang and Yasser Aliollahi Executed on Drug Charges in Zanjan

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Brothers Farhang and Yasser Aliollahi who were sentenced to death for drug-related offences, have been executed in Zanjan Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, two men were executed for drug-related offences in Zanjan Central Prison on the morning of January 11. Their identities have been established as 35-year-old Farhang Aliollahi and …

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7 Men Scheduled to be Executed in Rajai Shahr Prison Tomorrow

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Seven death row prisoners who all seem to have been sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, have been transferred to solitary confinement in preparation for their executions in Rajai Shahr Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, on January 10, seven men were transferred to solitary confinement in preparation for their executions in Rajai Shahr …

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IOPHR’s Statement regarding the Death of Baktash Abtin

Shabtabnews – In a statement IOPHR reminded the world that based on the past evidence of the Iranian Regime’s inhuman action, it’s likely that the regime will continue to exploit the current Corona crisis as means of stealth massacre of Iranian ideological and political prisoners like the death of Baktash Abtin. The statement also stated ” countless prisoners of conscience, …

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Iranian Employee In U.K. After Being Freed, British Council Says

RFL/RE – The British Council says an Iranian female employee convicted of spying for Israel has been acquitted by a court and is now free and has arrived in the United Kingdom. Aras Amiri, who worked for the council’s London office, was sentenced to 10 years in jail in 2019. The British Council said on January 12 that an appeal …

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Imprisoned Journalist Keyvan Samimi is Being Led to His Death

CHRI – The life of veteran journalist and political activist Keyvan Samimi is in danger as he continues to be unlawfully kept behind bars in Tehran’s Evin Prison despite state officials’ recommendations that he be released to receive treatment for serious health problems. “We’re seeing a pattern of political prisoners being intentionally led to their deaths in Iran’s prisons,” said Hadi Ghaemi, …

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Fact Check: Is the Iranian Judiciary Free to Execute Child Offenders?

Iranwire – On November 17, 2021, the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly passed a resolution expressing “serious concern” at the “continued imposition of the death penalty by the Islamic Republic of Iran against minors”. It went on to urge the Islamic Republic “to cease the imposition of the death penalty against minors, including persons who at the time of their …

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Trans Man: For Iranian LGBT+ Families, There’s Life After Religion

Iranwire – “I was born into a religious family. My mother attended Quran and religious classes, and took me along with her when I was a child. During these lessons, so many thoughts were injected into my mind that I subconsciously embraced religion. I went on Hajj with my family at a young age and was insistent on performing the …

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